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Ethno-erotic Economies Sexuality, Money, and Belonging in Kenya
ISBN: PB: 9780226491172, ISBN: HB: 9780226491035, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones
"Ethno-erotic Economies" explores a fascinating case of tourism focused on sex and culture in coastal Kenya, where young men deploy stereotypes of African warriors to help them establish transactional sexual relationships with European women. In bars...
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£22,50
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£67,50
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Erotic Doll A Modern Fetish
ISBN: HB: 9780300152029, Yale University Press, December 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 colour images, 110 black&white illus.
Since the 19th century, dolls have served as commodities but also as objects of possession and obsession, love and lust. That century witnessed the emergence of the term "heterosexual" as well as distinctly modern conceptions of fetishism, perversity...
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£40,00
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Educating in the Divine Image Gender Issues in Orthodox Jewish Day Schools
ISBN: PB: 9781611684582, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2013
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Although recent scholarship has examined gender issues in Judaism with regard to texts, rituals, and the rabbinate, there has been no full-length examination of the education of Jewish children in day schools. Drawing on studies in education, social...
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£32,00
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Ecce Homo The Male-Body-in-Pain as Redemptive Figure
ISBN: PB: 9780226074702, ISBN: HB: 9780226074696, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 12 halftones
Images of suffering male bodies permeate Western culture, from Francis Bacon's paintings and Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs to the battered heroes of action movies. Drawing on perspectives from a range of disciplines – including religious studies,...
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£33,00
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£95,00
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Enacting Pleasure A Response to Carol Gilligan's New Map of Love
ISBN: HB: 9781906497699, Seagull Books, May 2011
300 pp., 25x15 cm, 2 halftones
In her book "In a Different Voice", psychologist Carol Gilligan proffered the controversial idea that a psychology of male development could not suffice as a psychology of all human development, both male and female. Since the publication of that rev...
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£26,50
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